... ' and on to NewPlymouth. We decided to park up for the night in a camp site in Ohakura, a beach town not far from NewPlymouth with spectacular views of Mt Taranaki. The beach has black volcanic sand which looks quite strange when you're not used to ...
We decided to take the Forgotten Highway route to NewPlymouth on numerous recommendations - Being a rainy day though put a bit of a dampner on the views which all came out pretty grey on Aldo's numerous pictures! We decided to take a turn off to do a ...
... up to the visitor centre and call for some assistance I made a sharp exit before the car blew up!
I left DawsonFalls and headed back towards NewPlymouth. I was then drawn by the sign that read 'Lake Mangamahoe'. I immediately turned down the ...
... look around the craft shops that this little town is famous for (Yep Rach was in her element again!) we finally arrived in NewPlymouth, the major city in this part of the north island. This City now fully embrassing its multicultural past ...
Arrived in NewPlymouth on Monday afternoon after a very scenic seaside drive from Whakapapa. Has to stop a few Ks short of NewPlymouth as my tummy was feeling a bit dodgy! But after the rest I was ok. Turned up at a 'top 10' holiday park and stayed in ...
... a GIGANTIC Dinosaurs from China display! They were also doing demonstrations of the Maori traditional tattoo called Ta Moko. We headed out for NewPlymouth and made it to Mt. Taranaki / Mt. Egmont in time to sneak in a peak of to the DawsonFalls and ...
... to resemble. So yes. Now that the IMPORTANT people have been let know finally..... YESTERDAY. Remember in last Blog, I talked about DawsonFalls being all nice and magical and sentimental and junk?? Yeah. That's because I got engaged there. YAAAAAYYYY!!! ...
... ! Saw some cool icicles and stuff, and a great view of other mountains in the area such as mount ropaeo, and the tasman sea by newplymouth. Its around 2500m at its highest point, id say we were at around 1500m up, possibly a bit more. Then we made our ...